CABLE, John Levi, (great-grandson of Joseph Cable),
a Representative from Ohio; born in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, April
15, 1884; attended the public schools; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, LL.B.,
1906 and from the law department of George Washington University, Washington,
D.C., J.D., 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in
Lima, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Allen County 1917-1921; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4,
1921-March 3, 1925); chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
(Sixty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1924; resumed
the practice of law; again elected to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to
the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the
practice of law; special assistant to attorney general of Ohio 1933-1937;
special counsel to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the liquidation of
the Lima First American Bank & Trust Co.; appointed Government appeal agent
of Selective Service Board No. 2, Lima, Ohio, 1948-1960; author and publisher;
died in Lima, Ohio, September 15, 1971; entombment in a niche in St. Boniface
Episcopal Church, Sarasota, Fla.